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Originally Posted by eyeayen

Yeah I spotted that, also saw the Serpert shots for their 8th car a while back, now seen the shots of the new 408, wondering how similar they are ? Is there some sort of design / manufacturing process with the two of them or is it pure coincidence ???

announcement from 2007

Serpent is very pleased to officially announce that Gerd Strenge, better known as Mr Durango from Germany, has entered into a long-term cooperation with Serpent, for the development of offroad rc racing cars.

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Serpent's R&D team and Gerd Strenge are now working together on a number of projects for the offroad market, but it will take some time before you will see the actual cars being introduced. Although proto-types have been running for a while already.

http://www.serpent.com/news/12335/Se...o-offroad.html